viande
Bourguignon
editEtymology
editNoun
editviande f (plural viandes)
Synonyms
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French viande, from Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus, from vīvere (“to live”). Compare English viand, Italian vivanda, Portuguese vivenda, Spanish vivienda.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editviande f (plural viandes)
- meat
- 1869, Charles Baudelaire, Petits poèmes en prose:
- À voir les enfers dont le monde est peuplé, que voulez-vous que je pense de votre joli enfer, vous qui ne reposez que sur des étoffes aussi douces que votre peau, qui ne mangez que de la viande cuite, et pour qui un domestique habile prend soin de découper les morceaux ?
- Seeing the hells with which the world abounds, what do you expect me to think of your pretty little hell, you who lie on stuffs as soft as your own skin, who eat only cooked meat carefully cut for you by a skilled servant?
- (obsolete) food
- 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:
- Car notez que c’est viande celeste manger à desjeuner raisins avec fouace fraiche.
- For here it is to be remarked, that it is a celestial food to eat for breakfast hot fresh cakes with grapes.
- (sexuality) an object of sexual desire; a piece of meat
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “viande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editLatin
editParticiple
editviande
Middle French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French viande.
Noun
editviande f (plural viandes)
- food; nourishment
- (16th century onwards) meat (edible flesh of an animal)
Usage notes
edit- See Old French viande below.
Descendants
edit- French: viande
References
edit- viande on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (viande, supplement)
Norman
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old French viande, from Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus (“which is to be lived”), future passive participle of vīvō, vīvere (“live”, verb).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editviande f (plural viandes)
Derived terms
edit- viande dé vaque (“beef”)
- viande au fou (“roast meat”)
Old French
editAlternative forms
edit- vïande (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)
Etymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus (“which is to be lived”), future passive participle of vīvō, vīvere (“live”, verb).
Noun
editviande oblique singular, f (oblique plural viandes, nominative singular viande, nominative plural viandes)
- food (anything which when ingested into the digestive system provides nutrition for the body)
Usage notes
edit- Not used to mean 'meat' until the 16th century.[1]
Descendants
edit- → English: viand
- Middle French: viande
- French: viande
- Norman: viande, viànde
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: vianda
- Galician: vianda
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (viande, supplement)
- viande on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- ^ Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion, page 151, part of the 'philological and grammatical commentary' by André Esékénazi. →ISBN
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